Razi Journal of Medical Sciences

Background: Considering this fact that in necessary conditions physicians should breaking bad NEWS to their patients and families, they have to obtain essential behavioral skills during their educations. That’s why these behavioral skills play important roles in definition of professionalism in World Health Organization while the most important aspect is its efficacy.

Methods: This is a descriptive analytic study which has been conducted in Iran to standardize the validity and reliability of Spike questionnaire about breaking bad NEWS to the patients. At first the questionnaire was translated from English to Persian and then it was coordinated with national scales and again translated into English to confirm its external validity. To evaluate its structural validity it was distributed among 100 medical residents and finally the data was analyzed with statistical software. The results were discussed by expert professions. Its reliability was also assessed by Cronbach's Alpha and also Test - retest methods and considering the results, the final questionnaire on this issue was designed.

Results: Due to our results, validity and reliability of the questionnaire was confirmed. Cronbach's Alpha test showed its internal solidarity more than 0.7 and ICC was measured as.903 that all confirmed the questionnaire reliability.

Conclusion: Spike questionnaire can be a valid and reliable method to evaluate the awareness of physicians in breaking bad NEWS to the patients and their family members. As not many studies have evaluated this issue it seems necessary to conduct a national educational program for all medical students in universities

Background: Emotional intelligence as a basic psychological constructs to the success of life and mental health of people formed in the process of life and behavior of parents plays an important role in its growth. This study aimed determines the predictive role of assertiveness and aggression in emotional intelligence of students of sixth grade of elementary school.

Methods: The present study was Cross-sectional. The study population of present study consisted of all students of the sixth grade of elementary school of Qaen city and parents in academic year of 2013-2014 that 189 students (94 boys and 95 girls) and their parents using multi-stage random sampling method were selected from among them. Data were collected using The Aggression Questionnaire- AQ, Gambryl and Ritchie assertiveness questionnaire and The Schutte Self Report Emotional Intelligence Test (SSEIT). The results were analyzed using SPSS-20 software and regression, independent t test and Mann-Whitney U test in the significant level of 0.05.

Results: The results showed that between assertiveness of parents and none of its components and emotional intelligence of students there is no significant correlation (p>0.05). But There was significant negative correlation between aggression of parent and emotional intelligence of students (p>0.01, r=-0.18). Regression analysis showed aggression of father is a predictor of emotional intelligence of students (p>0.05). But, aggression of mother had no role in predicting emotional intelligence of students (p>0.05).

Conclusion: The results of present study showed that aggression of parents causes that children face in the process of emotional intelligence with problems and limitations. Given that, the behavior of parents affect on the behavior and how to train of children in the family. So, it is recommended more attention in the parenting of children and parental lifestyle.